Guernsey Poets

American flags hang dismally like forgotten laundry slung across balconies dirty and betrayed A grey skin of steam plumes by the Hudso...

Blue bells nod their sleepy heads In old sun-speckled woods To spring time music of the birds In glades where once she stood. Her laug...

We watched a small boat on the lake: oars dipped and rose, oars dipped and rose, and strollers, happy, I suppose, went by, each blind t...

Armistice Day And the café is two thirds empty. Vacant seats that evoke images Of men unknown Who drank coffee, made love, fathered ch...

It may have been a fling to you and little more. To me it was the world I’d built our future on. You threw me down as though I were a ...

There ain't no point denying, I ain't lying That our love affair was real Or how could I explain, this kinda pain That's how ...

Was my touch so repulsive, you scrubbed me away? And my company so cruel, it caused you to stray Did the structure we build, turn to rubbl...

Johnny, dear Johnny, since you sailed away Now a year, seven months and a day But your ship it has not yet returned Though my heart it ha...

It's hard to write this, and hurts more to read I can't stop the tears, my heart's gonna bleed such a precious time, with my o...

Back at your granite seat, Billy, love though you'll come this way no more six years since it was placed here, above, your favourite ...

Underlined in your mind lies unconfessed Dressed with a cold shoulder interest Quick change artist behind painted eyes Daughter of the wa...

Together, for the first time in cold December Christmas carols, decorations and snowy weather like children again, a magical time because...

I remember the over-furnished room, cold as a cave, where they had laid him between the aspidistra and a spotted mirror; the sunbeams,...

Struggling, climbing our mountain together then, as I looked around , you fell I'm all alone now, stranded in darkness there's no...

All memories, hopes and dreams, in tatters when such a beautiful thing just shatters somehow I knew it would soon be gone Nothing that pe...

What can I do now, all I wanted in life on that cruellest, blackest day stolen from me for ever please take this nightmare away. All th...

Life was a jigsaw before you came lots of pieces broken or lost you came along with a simpler game caring, sharing not counting the cost....

Your pale hands hover Over the harp, Curved and curled Like eagles claws, Paused and poised As if to strike, Beautiful melodies From ...

This crumpled sweet wrapper down the back of your favourite sun-lounge chair, this half scribbled recipe in the drawer along with the nea...

I sat in his mother’s conservatory For a quiet moment, Surrounded by floral tributes and cards To have a silent weep, While I thumbed th...